Adelaide Claudia Cox Yager Rameson Taylor (January 20, 1892 – December 9, 1973) was an American tennis player from Kansas City, Missouri, later based in Los Angeles, California.
Early life Adelaide Claudia Cox was from Missouri, the daughter of Fred Millard Cox (1864–1908) and Maude Elizabeth Vrooman Cox (1870–1928)."Her Sister Dead" Council Grove Republican (November 19, 1928): 1. via Newspapers.com
Career Adelaide Yager of Kansas City"Mrs. Yager Will Compete in Tennis Play at Triple A" St. Louis Star and Times (June 7, 1918): 13. via Newspapers.com"Miss Arnstein Loses State Tennis Title to Kansas City Star in 32-Minute Match" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 18, 1916): 35. via Newspapers.com won the lawn tennis singles competition at Missouri Valley Women's Championships in 1914."Missouri Valley Women's Championships" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1915): 114. In the same year, she was runner-up to Marjorie Hires at the Central West Women's Championship in Kansas City, Missouri.John Ten Broeck, "Central West Women's Championship" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1915): 172-173. Yager was selected as the top-ranked woman tennis player in Kansas City in 1914.John Ten Broeck, "Lawn Tennis in Kansas City" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1915): 189-190. In 1915 she was singles runner-up at the Missouri Valley Women's Championships."Missouri Valley Women's Championships" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1916): 90-91. She was ranked in the top 30 women tennis players in America in 1915."Official Women's Ranking" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1916): 258.
As Adelaide Rameson, she was Great Plains and Central States tennis singles champion and women's doubles and mixed doubles runner-up in 1918.Robert Ross, "Central States Women's Championships" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1919): 131-132. She was also runner-up in singles and won in women's doubles at the Los Angeles City Championships,H. F. Weller, "Tennis in Southern California" Spalding's Lawn Tennis Annual (1919): 157-158."Mrs. Widdowson Gets Revenge in City Meet" Los Angeles Times (September 10, 1918): 4. via Newspapers.com and runner-up at the national level at the 1918 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships, defeated by Carrie Neely."Great Plains Tournaments" Spalding's Tennis Annual (1919): 138. She was ranked as one of the top ten American women's lawn tennis players in 1919."Women's Ranking" American Lawn Tennis (January 15, 1919): 354."Leading 20 Players Under New Ranking of Net Stars" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (March 9, 1919): 5. via Newspapers.com
Personal life Adelaide Cox married William Watson Yager in 1912. They had children together, William (1912–1982) and Ramona (1916–2001), before they divorced. She married Julius Alfred Rasmussen, a Danish man also known as Jack Rameson, in 1918. They had two sons together, Jack (1919–1961) and Fred (1922–1965). She was widowed when Jack Rameson died in 1944;"Retired Bullock Official Succumbs" Los Angeles Times (December 13, 1944): 26. via Newspapers.com she married a third time, to Paul Taylor, in 1945. She died in Glendale, California in 1973, age 81."Deaths" Los Angeles Times (December 11, 1973): 30. via Newspapers.com
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